The team tore through the AFA schedule, posting an 11-1 record. The 1978 edition of the Steamer was an outstanding minor league outfit. He purchased what remained of the WFL team’s uniforms and equipment from a storage warehouse for $3,000. He secured rights to the old Steamer name and logo from the former WFL ownership group. Lander served not only owner, GM and Head Coach of the Shreveport franchise but President of the AFA itself in 1978. The man behind the revival was a Texas football coach and promoter named Harry Lander. The team was part of the American Football Association, a dysfunctional and ever-shifting collective of semi-pro teams based primarily in Texas and the southeastern U.S. This second incarnation of the Shreveport Steamer was a minor league re-boot of the original Shreveport Steamer (1974-1975) of the defunct World Football League.
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